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Texas Civil Rights Project Files Complaint Against Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Use of SPD Code Policy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org TDCJ violated the Fourteenth Amendment by confining people...
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May 7, 20243 min read
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Amid Mass Arrests, Texas Civil Rights Project Denounces Criminalization of First Amendment Rights of College Students at UT Austin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org AUSTIN, TEXAS - In the last week, over 50 students were...
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Apr 30, 20241 min read
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TCRP Urges the Department of Justice to Investigate Texas' de facto Immigration Scheme, Operation Lone Star
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT URGES THE DEPARTMENT OF...
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Apr 30, 20243 min read
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Corpus Christi ISD Violates Education Law According to State Agency Investigation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2024 CONTACT: Edie Surtees, Disability Rights Texas, esurtees@DRTx.org Willis Jacobson, National Center...
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Apr 25, 20242 min read
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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Blocks Extreme Texas Anti-Immigrant Law From Going Into Effect
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby Arias,...
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Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Civil Rights Organizations File Administrative Complaint Against CBP One App, Claiming Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2024 Contact: Texas Civil Rights Project - media@texascivilrightsproject.org Civil Rights Education and...
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Mar 26, 20243 min read
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Supreme Court Allows Anti-Immigrant Texas Law to Go into Effect
Court allows stay on injunction while appeal is pending FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2024 CONTACT: Texas Civil Rights Project,...
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Mar 19, 20243 min read
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Supreme Court Extends Pause on Anti-Immigrant Texas Legislation that Would Overstep Federal Law
Decision prevents law from going into effect until March 18 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil...
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Mar 12, 20243 min read
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Press Release: Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas
Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas Request comes days after Fifth Circuit...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Civil Rights Groups Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Block Extreme Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 in Texas
Request comes days after Fifth Circuit Court issued an administrative stay, which would have allowed law to go into effect this weekend...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Immigration Advocates Criticize Biden's Border Visit
Biden touts bipartisan immigration bill as “toughest set of border security reforms” the country has ever seen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Feb 29, 20242 min read
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Federal Court Blocks Extreme Texas Legislation That Would Overstep Federal Immigration Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 29, 2024 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Feb 29, 20244 min read
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Civil Rights Groups React to Federal Court Hearing in Preliminary Injunction for Texas Senate Bill 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 15, 2024 Contact: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Feb 15, 20243 min read
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TCRP Wins Preliminary Injunction in Houston Food Sharing Challenge
Food Not Bombs Houston will be allowed to continue food-sharing without fines as the case moves forward FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February...
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Feb 15, 20242 min read
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Two Texas School Districts Accused of Violating Federal Education and Civil Rights Laws
Students with Disabilities and Students of Color Pushed Out of School FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2024 Contacts: Laura Felix, Texas...
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Feb 6, 20245 min read
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TCRP Files Amended Complaint Against Prison Officials for Civil Rights Violations
Dennis Hope was subjected to multiple violations of the Constitution during his decades of solitary confinement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Feb 5, 20242 min read
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TCRP Files Lawsuit to Stop Enforcement of Houston Anti-Food Sharing Ordinance
The ordinance has resulted in egregious fines and prosecutions of local Food Not Bombs volunteers, simply for feeding homeless community...
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Jan 30, 20243 min read
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Immigration Advocates Criticize Gov. Abbott's Statement Claiming Texas has the Right to Defend itself by Creating Illegal and Racist Immigration Laws
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org AUSTIN, TEXAS - This week, Governor Greg Abbott issued...
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Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Civil Rights Groups File Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas’ Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 From Taking Effect
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2024 CONTACT: Kristi Gross, ACLU of Texas, media@aclutx.org Gabby Arias, ACLU, media@aclu.org Savannah...
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Jan 12, 20242 min read
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Texas from Enacting Extremist Immigration Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2023 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Dec 19, 20233 min read
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